mandrake
英 ['mændreɪk]
美['mændrek]
- n. 曼德拉草（可作镇静药用）
中文词源
mandrake 茄参，曼陀罗，情花
一种麻醉药药物，含剧毒。来自希腊语mandragoras,可能最终来自梵语。俗词源认为该词来自man,人，drake,公鸭，公鸭叫声，因这种植物根形如人形，传说从土中拉出来会发出尖叫声，听到这种叫声的人都会死去。也称为曼陀罗花，情花。参照金庸小说《神雕侠侣》。
英文词源
- mandrake
- mandrake: [14] The mandrake is a Mediterranean plant of the potato family with medicinal uses. Its name is an alteration of mandragora, which goes back via Latin to Greek mandragóras, a word probably of non- Indo-European origin. The change arose owing to an association with man (the mandrake has a large forked root which supposedly resembles a human being) and drake ‘dragon’ (an allusion to the root’s supposedly magical properties).
- mandrake (n.)
- narcotic plant, early 14c., mondrake, from Medieval Latin mandragora, from Latin mandragoras, from Greek mandragoras, probably from a non-Indo-European word. The word was in late Old English in its Latin form; folk etymology associated the second element with dragoun and substituted native drake in its place. The forked root is thought to resemble a human body and is said to shriek when pulled from the ground.
双语例句
- 1. The antidote is made from mandrake roots ( CS 9 ) .
- 解药须用 曼德拉 草根做成.
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